Comments on: The iPhone – Convergence Realized? http://www.geardiary.com/2009/04/21/the-iphone-convergence-realized/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: What you know about media convergence? « ConvergeThis!http://www.geardiary.com/2009/04/21/the-iphone-convergence-realized/#comment-120899 What you know about media convergence? « ConvergeThis! Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:28:33 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=26590#comment-120899 [...] broken iPhone comes damn close to achieving that and I for one, have no complaints. The blog Gear Diary thinks so as well. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post.   [...] [...] broken iPhone comes damn close to achieving that and I for one, have no complaints. The blog Gear Diary thinks so as well. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post.   [...]

]]> By: thehotrod11http://www.geardiary.com/2009/04/21/the-iphone-convergence-realized/#comment-43748 thehotrod11 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:33:26 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=26590#comment-43748 I would agree. The iPhone is everything I wanted in my pocket. The internet on the iPhone is sooooo amazing. It makes me wonder how I ever surf'd the net on my crappy old Treo 700wx with that crippled Pocket IE or even Opera Mini on that little 240x240 screen, yikes. <br><br>And iTunes on my iPhone blows Pocket Windows Media Player out of the water. Other WM media players may be better with the ability to play more formats, but nothing is better at syncing and organizing my library. I love it. I had a Sansa for a while and I always looked down on iPod for their proprietary use of iTunes and DRM and such, but iTunes is so easy. And Podcasts works so well. I'm sold on iPhones/iPods now. They just work. <br><br>So I would agree convergence. Internet, Media, Mail, GPS, Location Aware applications, appstore, beautiful hardware, and ease of use. I love the iPhone. <br><br>My only recommendations would be better battery, better gps apps (TomTom type) and better calendaring and tasks support. I would agree. The iPhone is everything I wanted in my pocket. The internet on the iPhone is sooooo amazing. It makes me wonder how I ever surf'd the net on my crappy old Treo 700wx with that crippled Pocket IE or even Opera Mini on that little 240×240 screen, yikes.

And iTunes on my iPhone blows Pocket Windows Media Player out of the water. Other WM media players may be better with the ability to play more formats, but nothing is better at syncing and organizing my library. I love it. I had a Sansa for a while and I always looked down on iPod for their proprietary use of iTunes and DRM and such, but iTunes is so easy. And Podcasts works so well. I'm sold on iPhones/iPods now. They just work.

So I would agree convergence. Internet, Media, Mail, GPS, Location Aware applications, appstore, beautiful hardware, and ease of use. I love the iPhone.

My only recommendations would be better battery, better gps apps (TomTom type) and better calendaring and tasks support.

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